Winona LaDuke on Use of "Geronimo" as Code for Bin Laden & US Military's Native Nomenclature. 1 of 2

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The Obama administration has sparked outrage in the Native American community following the revelation it used the name of the legendary Apache leader Geronimo as a secret code word during the raid that killed of Osama bin Laden. Geronimo was an Apache leader who fought to preserve tribal lands against U.S. and Mexican forces in the 19th century. For comment, Democracy Now! interviews Native American activist and writer, Winona LaDuke. "The reality is that the military is full of native nomenclature," says LaDuke. "You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache LongBow helicopters, you've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is 'off the reservation into Indian Country.'" So what is that messaging that's being passed on? Basically, it is the continuation of the wars against indigenous people."

Winona LaDuke, Native American activist and writer. She lives and works on the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. She is the executive director of Honor The Earth. She has just published a new book, "The Militarization of Indian Country."

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[WindsNature]

Obama has damaged any relationship he had with First Nation Peoples by using the term Geronimo. Instead he should have chosen one of his own murdering leaders of the past, like Custer.

[LeoBertolino]

...Are those who kiss the... "skull and bones 322" ... at Yale University,

I think "W" has given the codename ... more SHAME and RACISM!

They Should Have Used the name Custer ... It Would Have Been more fitting for Their way of killing ... come see my video, you're welcome.

Justice for Goyathlay, and Respect for His People.

They have to apologize ... and many things happened in history.

[dinamo4889]

What this video fails to mention is that the Iraq war was a tremendous success 5000 dead in an invasion and inoculation of a country which population is 34 million people is a tremendous military success.

[micknm]

@micknm the helicopter that the men used to so called assasinate nobody problem it was a body from the morgue and the helicopter just recently with the true seebees on it were terminated by the govt nobama and his thug regime killed these men with a bomb in their helicopter and were not shot down as recorded by the news remember pat tilman he was shot at close range for he was going to rat the military out same applies here the story is phony from the first

[micknm]

excuse me bin laden was already dead for 10 years he died from kidney disease and they know it aas and another thing i am married to goyathalay great great great granddaughter by his second wife as for token boy he will reap what he has sown nobama is trash and by the way when is the skull and bones club going to give back the skeletal remains these people dont represent the family period they are uncle tomahawks

[helldog134]

being Apache it make sick how can do this to my people and all native American i spit all white eyes fuck with us fuck there bible

[WindsNature]

@urdum2 He would have agreed with it whether it was his choice or not, otherwise it wouldnt have happened....Lakota's see through Obama.

[urdum2]

@WindsNature ...do youreally think it was obama that thought, pitch the idea, and then coined the term.......wouldnt that be hard to prove.....

[Uhmu45]

@mstyrone01

i agree with you

[mstyrone01]

@Uhmu45 I understand what you are saying but our people struggled to fight for our land and shed blood for it and why use that name when they could of used a diffrent name such as george washington or christofer columbus would it be the same meaning for them?? if not then I guess it doesnt mean anything to them what they did for them to be here...............

[mstyrone01]

I know right why not use the names custer????????or george washington? or some white presidents names either????

[LuckyLeftyLuciano]

Shame on them for that.